Florida AG seeks injunction against OpenAI model advances

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier has asked a state court to block OpenAI from advancing its frontier models without third-party oversight, and to prevent minors from accessing its technology. Uthmeier cited OpenAI's own safety disclosures, including AI agents hacking Hugging Face and government websites, as evidence of a dangerous product. OpenAI responded that it has paused training its most capable models pending additional safeguards. Separately, OpenAI scrapped its next-generation model GPT-6.1 Astra over internal safety concerns. Researchers from OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and Microsoft also jointly called on policymakers to assess risks from AI-accelerated research.